Brain and eyes of Kerygmachela reveal protocerebral ancestry of the panarthropod head

Brain and eyes of Kerygmachela reveal protocerebral ancestry of the panarthropod head

The arthropod head is complex and its evolution has been difficult to reconstruct. Here, Park et al. describe new specimens of the Cambrian stem-group euarthropod Kerygmachela that preserve evidence of primitive compound eyes and a unipartite brain, providing insight into the structure of the early...

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Main Authors: Tae-Yoon S. Park, Ji-Hoon Kihm, Jusun Woo, Changkun Park, Won Young Lee, M. Paul Smith, David A. T. Harper, Fletcher Young, Arne T. Nielsen, Jakob Vinther
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Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/ca694c696a424ee68668d2c9c3dc3eab
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